Robert Willis
Funded Research:
Assessing and Improving Cognitive Measurement in the Health and Retirement Study (HRS) (NIA)
Behavior on Surveys and in the Economy Using HRS (NIA)
Fertility, Intergenerational Transfers, and Economic Development in South Africa (Hewlett)
Health and Society Scholars Program (Robert Wood Johnson Foundation)
Internet Interviewing and the HRS (NIA)
Measuring the Effect of Aging on Perceptions and Behavior (NIA)
RAND Internet Interviewing (NIA)
Retirement Savings, Subjective Expectations and Survey Measurement (NIA)
Widowhood, Divorce and Loss of Health Insurance Among Near Elderly Women: Evidence from the Health and Retirement Study (Coverage Research Initiative) (Robert Wood Johnson Foundation)
Research Professor, Population Studies Center, University of Michigan.
Professor, Economics, University of Michigan.
Research Professor, Survey Research Center, University of Michigan.
Ph.D., University of Washington, Seattle
Dr. Willis has made important contributions to research in labor economics and the economics of fertility and the family. He is currently conducting research on out-of-wedlock childbearing and intergenerational transfers in Asia and the United States. He also directs the Health and Retirement Study (HRS) and the study of the Asset and Health Dynamics of the Oldest Old (AHEAD).
Recent Publications
Journal Articles
Plassman, B.L., Langa, Kenneth M., G.G. Fisher, Steven Heeringa, David Weir, Mary Beth Ofstedal, J.R. Burke, M.D. Hurd, G.G. Potter, Willard Rodgers, D.C. Steffens, J.J. McArdle, Robert Willis, and R.B. Wallace. 2008. "Prevalence of cognitive impairment without dementia in the United States." Annals of Internal Medicine, 148(6): 427-434. Worldcat.
Plassman, B.L., Kenneth M. Langa, G.G. Fisher, Steven Heeringa, David Weir, Mary Beth Ofstedal, J.R. Burke, M.D. Hurd, G.G. Potter, Willard Rodgers, D.C. Steffens, Robert Willis, and R.B. Wallace. 2007. "Prevalence of dementia in the united states: The aging, demographics, and memory study." Neuroepidemiology, 29(1-2): 125-132. DOI:10.1007/s00181-006-0095-0. Licensed Access. Worldcat.
Langa, Kenneth M., B.L. Plassman, R.B. Wallace, A.R. Herzog, Steven Heeringa, Mary Beth Ofstedal, J.R. Burke, G.G. Fisher, N.H. Fultz, M.D. Hurd, G.G. Potter, W.L. Rodgers, D.C. Steffens, David Weir, and Robert Willis. 2005. "The aging, demographics, and memory study: Study design and methods." Neuroepidemiology, 25(4): 181-191. DOI:10.1159/000087448. Licensed Access.
McFadden, D.L., A.C. Bemmaor, F.G. Caro, J. Dominitz, B.H. Jun, A. Lewbel, R.L. Matzkin, F. Molinari, N. Schwartz, Robert Willis, and J.K. Winter. 2005. "Statistical analysis of choice experiments and surveys." Marketing Letters, 16(3-4): 183-196. DOI:10.1007/s11002-005-5884-2. Licensed Access.
Langa, Kenneth M., E.B. Larson, R.B. Wallace, A. Mark Fendrick, N.L. Foster, M.U. Kabeto, David Weir, and Robert Willis. 2004. "Out-of-Pocket Health Care Expenditures Among Older Americans With Dementia." Alzheimer Disease & Associated Disorders, 18(2): 90-98.
Sevak, Purvi, David Weir, and Robert Willis. 2004. "The Economic Consequence of a Husband’s Death: Evidence from HRS and AHEAD." Social Security Bulletin, 65(3): 31-44.
Chapters
Brien, M., and Willis, Robert. 2008. "Costs and Consequences for the Fathers." In Kids having kids : economic costs & social consequences of teen pregnancy edited by Hoffman, Saul D., Maynard, Rebecca A.. :119-160. Washington, D.C.: Urban Institute Press.
Willis, Robert. 2008. "Interpreting norms of obligation as planner's preferences for distributional justice : a formal economic model." In Intergenerational caregiving edited by Booth, Alan. :341-350. Washington, D.C.: Urban Institute Press.
Herzog, A. Regula, Robert Willis, and David Weir. 2004. "Research on aging." In A Telescope on Society: Survey Research and Social Science at the University of Michigan and Beyond edited by James S. House, et al.. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.
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Wildeman, "Imprisonment & Infant Mortality," PSC Research Report
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